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That was just how people in the 90s talked, I think the cliches sounded a bit fresher then, haha
by aparticulate 5y ago
That was just how people in the 90s talked, I think the cliches sounded a bit fresher then, haha
- rpmisms 5y agoSee also: Seinfeld isn't funny.
- mattl 5y agoNo way.
- hardlianotion 5y agoExactly. That opinion doesn’t exist.
- eyelidlessness 5y agoYadda yadda
- onionisafruit 5y agoIn this article when I read the sentence “Apology apology.” I immediately thought, “did he just yada yada the apology?”
- tympious 5y agoBut then again, was it related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Apologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Apologies ?
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- toyg 5y agoPeople still actually believed the cliches. A few boomers had not fully sold out yet, and there was a renaissance of actual punk-rock as reaction to the glossy yuppie '80s pop sound.
- wolverine876 5y agoI'm not criticizing the values, which I think we definitely could learn from - imagine an artist today putting art and integrity over money! - but the way they are expressed. Cliches signal to me that the speaker doesn't mean seriously what they are saying - they haven't thought enough to construct their own language (and at more than a superficial level, it's unlikely the cliche represents anyone's serious, nuanced point-of-view); they only have a vague notion and copy and paste a phrase that matches somewhat. When Nirvana was at the height of their popularity, imagine all the people approaching them, saying what they thought Nirvana wanted to hear. That is how Albini's letter reads to me: A lot of cliche demonstrating that Albini didn't really think these things. But obviously Nirvana knew their values, their business, and the situation far better than I do now, and they hired Albini. Also, someone else in this thread was a record producer at the time and sees the letter as significant, and we should probably listen to them too.
- rdiddly 5y agoI agree and would go further to say the correlation with outright falsehood is probably higher, i.e. a cliché might represent someone's effort to contradict the truth about themselves.